How To Get Your Hands On McDonald's New Fry Forks

When it comes to fast-food fries, we all have different rituals. Some prefer to dunk them in a Wendy's chocolate Frosty, others prefer to keep it simple with ketchup packets. Some go saltless for guaranteed fresh spuds, others want them smothered in cheese. But has anyone ever stuck them into a "frork" to sop up extra burger sauce? Definitely not.

In a new faux infomercial, McDonald's is hawking a strange plastic utensil that it's calling the Frork. In it, iconic TV man Anthony Sullivan demonstrates the woes of extra ketchup and barbecue sauce falling out of your burger. But, he says, there's a way to save it — with a piece of red plastic designed to hold three fries. So you can, um, dip 'em?

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But even McD's calls this thing "fundamentally superfluous" and "ludicrous" (and immediately follows it up with "ludicrously easy to use!" but still) so you know they're in on the joke. Or, at least, that they aren't entirely serious.

Still, the chain will be passing these things out (for three easy payments of free!) on Friday, May 5 with every purchase of its new Big Macs, which have been made over with pico-guacamole, maple-bacon dijon mustard, and sweet barbecue bacon sauce. Whether this will be a successful promotion of its new burgers remains to be seen.

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